Clasp or fastening device



F. B. BYERS CLASP 0R FASTENING DEVICE Filed March 19, 920

In v-ewtor:

Patented Jan. 13, 1 925.

U'NETEE STA T 0 all whom it may Be it known that citizen of the United States,

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FIRM B. BYERS, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

CLASP OR FASTENING DEVICE.

Application filed March '19, 1920. Serial No. 367,102.

concern: I, FIRM B. BYE'Rs, a residing at New York city, in the county of New York 4 5 and State of New York, have invented certain new and usef Clasps or Fastening following is a spec-1h u'l Improvements in Devices, of which the cation.

This invention relates to devices for holding collars,

andis especially .desi of soft collars to of the ends and position.

The primary object prevent undue hold them 111 a desirable or collars and neckties, etc.

gned to clasp the ends separation .of the present invention is to provide a collar holderor fastener that will easily and firmly grip the ends or flaps of a collar, by merely inserting the collar in the gripping portion, and which device can be easily and cheaply formed from a single piece of metal or other suitable material.

A further object of the invention is to provide devices of this character in which the end portions of a bar or strip are divided into a series of tongues or arms,

that

are suitably deflected to have an engagement with the collar flaps, in which one of said tongueswill cooperate with a pair of other tongues to grlp the flaps.

In the accompanying drawing embodiments. of my :shows in perspective showing invention, F gure 1 one formof the device.

Fig. 2 is a side elevation of a modified construction.

' Fig. 3 is a plan View of the latter.

Fig. 4 showsthedevice in use.

In the arrangement shown in Fig.

provide a strip or a body portion v1, that portions provided :with

1, I bar, having a central 1s widened .atthe end 2 and 3. These end portions are tongues 6 and 7., integral with thebody at the inner end of each tongue, with the fre e end portion of each tongue preferably curved upward, as shown at 8 and 9.

are shown as curved 7 and the tongues 6 and The end portions of the tongues downwardly, so that separate prongs 2',

25, 3, 3 or oppositeportions of the end members have cooperating faces arranged to engage the opposite surfaces of the collar, as indicated in Fig. 4.

This suitable manner,

device can be constructed in any being readily formed from sheet metal by dies, the tongues S and 9 beconstituting t jaws and athicker part of the fabric,

iing formed by slots 4: and 5, by a cutting die, and the parts bent as shown.

In the modification shown in Figs. 2 and 3, the central bar 12, is provided with tongues in slotted end portions, formed by slots or slits extending to the ends of the bar, whereby to produce three tongues, 16, 17, and 18 at one end, and three tongues 19, 14 and 15 at the other end portion.

By this means a series of connected tongues are formed at each end of the bar, that extend endwis'e from the central body portion 12. These tongues may be deflected at each end, as indicated in Fig. 2, in which the intermediate tongues 19, 18, are bent I downwardly and then given-a convex bend upwardly, as shown in Fig. 2. The two outer bars at each end are given a similar convex bend at their outer end portions, and these convex portions are positioned adjacent, so

that at each end the outer pair of bars, that are substantially parallel, will engage one side of the collar flatwise while the intermediate tongue will engage the opposite side of the collar. The-outer portions of these tongues will converge to form a loop or pocket 12, while the very extremities of the same diverge to facilitate the entrance of the collar therebetween.

My device thus has two parallel outer jaws comprising the lower body port o 14 and 15 and the tongue 19 struck up out of the inner oppositely disposed concave recessed jaws. These two pairs of jaws operate differentially and offer different degrees of resistance to the withdrawal therefrom ot the said fabric in a lateral'direction, and the whole of said operating portions are adapted throughout their entire extent to lie close to and to simultaneously evenly grasp both faces of different portions of the fabric of different thicknesses entered therein. The entire structure is preferably given a curved or convex form, as shown in the loop, the clasp thus Figs. 1 and 2. The device is applied to the end portions of the collar flaps 10, as indicated in Fig. 4 and will rest beneath the necktie 11, as shown. In each ofthe embodiments of my invention shown in Figure l and Figures 2 and 3 the clasp or fastener, which may'obviously be used for a great variety of purposes in either single or dual form, is made from a single bar or piece of material which may, at one or both ends thereof, be slitted in an inward direction from the outer portion of the same. In

Figure 1 the slit at the said outer portion of c the device approaches near but is not extended to the end of the bar, while in Figure 8 the slit at the said outer portion of the device is cut through to the very edge of the said bar; wherefore the pairs of tongues will be separated at the outer portion of the bar both in the structure illustrated in Figure 1 and also in that shown in Figure 3.

By the said slits bifurcations or clamping jaws are formed as illustrated in Figures 1 and 3 which bifurcations recede from each other at the inner end of the slit and are then adapted to approach one another so as to lie adjacent to each other at the outer end of the slit to form automatic or selfacting clamping jaws and a relatively posterior cavity or'recess. 1 a V In the duplex form of the invention shown in the drawings the fastening devicesat the ends oftlie bar are also connected by a central part projecting from one of said fastening devices toward the other one.

It will thus be seen that according to the invention there is an edge-contact grip be tween the edge of the middle prong and the edge of each of thetwo opposite outside tongues, thus affording a dual longitudinal grip or resistance to the escape or withdrawal of the body of the collar from the clasp. There is also a face-contact grip between the face of the convex middlepron'g and the faces of the two opposite outside convex tongues that meet to form the outer boundary of the loops, wherefore in order to escape orto be withdrawn, the collar hem has to bodily push the top prong upwardly and the two inner tongues downwardly, thus affording a dual transversegrip or resistance to the escape of the collar hem from providing a fourfold resilient contact grip.

In my device which is slitted in an inward direction from the outer portions thereof the spaced ends or single end tongues 2', 2", 3

port-ions of my clasp in Figures 1 and 3 and the oppositely disposed flanges 6 and 7 and 18 and 19 form bifurcations which latter recede. from each other at the innerend of the-slit and then approach each other so as to lie adjacent to and opposite each other at ing endwise from the body,

"JZLW may exert an equal-adj .rate resilient tongues ceding from each other to form an entrance to .the said loop which is normally closed at each end thereof, the said clamping jaws serving to provide an openable mouth of the inclosed open loop and to prevent accidental entrance into or withdrawalfrom the loop, the gripping properties of the abuttingjaws thereby residing solely at the said mouth.-

I claim:

1. A fastener of the class set forth com- 7 prising a bar having a central body slitted at the ends thereof to form two outer and intermediate end members each composed of a series of separate resilient tongues projecttongues of each end member being I positloned opposite athird intermediate tongue with an edge contact grip, the said tongues being relatively recessed to provide a clear space between the said tongues, each of the whereby collar end portions may be clamped tongues having a convex portion exerting an opposed separate differential face contact grip near its end'to hold the thickened edge 'of a collar therebetween, and terminating in oppositely disposed diverging extremities. 2. A fastener of the class described con sisting'of a'bar forming a central body por-. 'tion and slitted to provide jaws comprising two side and intermediate tongues on opposite ends of thebody, each tongue being recessed at its inner'part to provide separate interior abutments enclosing a pocket space and bent in "opposite convex shape near the outer ends thereof to forma closure for the pocket, the ends of. the intermediate. tongues being free to enter the slits, whereby each 'acent, but op posed and separate, differential edge contact grip on a soft-collar entered between the intermediate and'outer side tongues near the 1 ends thereof to prevent accidental transverse .WlllhdIELWfil movement of the body of the collar from the tongues, the interior abutlmentsalso servingto resist by a face contact grip longitudinal, passage thereby, and

from the pocket, of the thickened edge of the collar, the

tongues terminating in oppositely disposed said side and intermediate di i g extremities.

3. A fastener of the class described comprislng a bar having a body portion and an 3", 14, 15, 16 and 17 comprising the dual end tween edgewise, said tongues being rela iii tively deflected to provide a clear space opposite convex shape near the outer ends whereby the extreme end of the article may thereof to provide a closure for the pocket, 15

be held between the intermediate tongue and the end of the intermediate tongues being the extremities of the outer tongues facefree to enter the slit to enable the side and Wise, the said tongues terminating in relaintermediate tongues to exert a differential tively oppositely disposed diverging exedge contact grip on an article entered theretremitles. between, the interior abutments serving to 20 4. A fastener of the class described comexert a face contact grip on the portion of prising a bar slitted to provide two side the article in the pocket, the said tongues tongues and an intermediate tongue, said terminating in relatively oppositely distongues being relatively recessed at their posed diverging extremities. inner parts to provide separate interior In testimony whereof I aflix my signatureabutments enclosing a pocket and bent in FIRM B. BYER-S. 

